Suraj Gamage completed his education in the Arts at the University of Visual and Performing Arts in Colombo. While in his early work the artist chose to adopt a political dialogue, over the past few years the artist began experimenting with abstract colour, an entirely new path for the young artist.
These acrylic paintings are random flows, combinations of different colors and tonal patches. Moving away from conventional natural landscape paintings and visual reality, Gamage visualizes wide dimensions of nature and its elements of life.
Krishnapriya Tharmakrishna is a symbolist unfazed by paint; its potential for artistic expression seemingly insufficient. To her, the paintbrush wields no power, and the easel disappoints as a medium worthy of conveying any real emotion.
Preferring instead her own unorthodox arsenal of choice -nails and tracing paper-, Krishnapriya creates optical and textural contemplations derived from the point-directed lines. Employing mellow undertones -deceptive for pieces so conceptually charged- these artworks reticently project imagery alluding to the theme of maternal love, or the lack of it thereof.
